Jeanette Beer is a professor emerita and a senior member of Lady Margaret Hall and St Hilda’s College, at Oxford University.

‘It is a pleasure to read this short, perceptive, and thought-provoking book by a scholar of medieval French… It is a contribution to the interdisciplinary work that we badly need.’- Susan Reynolds (The Brown Book (Lady Margaret Hall – Oxford) 2015) ‘Beer’s discussion is an intriguing exploration of medieval historiographical practices that continue to be regrettably understudies. Its enthusiastic engagement with both Latin and vernacular sources contribute to the welcome emergence of a robust interest in medieval multilingualism.’- Elizaveta Strakhov (Speculum vol 91:02:2016)

• ForewordChapter One – The First Words of French: Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum        Ludovici PiiChapter Two – Whose Words are They? Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum Chapter Three – Villehardouin ‘Who Never to the Best of his Knowledge Spoke anUntrue Word’ La ConquÊte de Constantinople Chapter Four – Robert de Clari, Povre  Chevalier Who ‘Wrote the Straight Truth’: La ConquÊte de ConstantinopleChapter Five – In the Words of the Author: Li Fet des Romains: The Gallic WarChapter Six – In the Words of the Author: Li Fet des Romains: The Civil WarConclusionAfterwordBibliography of Works Cited

Jeanette Beer is a professor emerita and a senior member of Lady Margaret Hall and St Hilda’s College, at Oxford University.

‘It is a pleasure to read this short, perceptive, and thought-provoking book by a scholar of medieval French… It is a contribution to the interdisciplinary work that we badly need.’- Susan Reynolds (The Brown Book (Lady Margaret Hall – Oxford) 2015) ‘Beer’s discussion is an intriguing exploration of medieval historiographical practices that continue to be regrettably understudies. Its enthusiastic engagement with both Latin and vernacular sources contribute to the welcome emergence of a robust interest in medieval multilingualism.’- Elizaveta Strakhov (Speculum vol 91:02:2016)

• ForewordChapter One – The First Words of French: Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum        Ludovici PiiChapter Two – Whose Words are They? Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum Chapter Three – Villehardouin ‘Who Never to the Best of his Knowledge Spoke anUntrue Word’ La ConquÊte de Constantinople Chapter Four – Robert de Clari, Povre  Chevalier Who ‘Wrote the Straight Truth’: La ConquÊte de ConstantinopleChapter Five – In the Words of the Author: Li Fet des Romains: The Gallic WarChapter Six – In the Words of the Author: Li Fet des Romains: The Civil WarConclusionAfterwordBibliography of Works Cited

Jeanette Beer is a professor emerita and a senior member of Lady Margaret Hall and St Hilda’s College, at Oxford University.

‘It is a pleasure to read this short, perceptive, and thought-provoking book by a scholar of medieval French… It is a contribution to the interdisciplinary work that we badly need.’- Susan Reynolds (The Brown Book (Lady Margaret Hall – Oxford) 2015) ‘Beer’s discussion is an intriguing exploration of medieval historiographical practices that continue to be regrettably understudies. Its enthusiastic engagement with both Latin and vernacular sources contribute to the welcome emergence of a robust interest in medieval multilingualism.’- Elizaveta Strakhov (Speculum vol 91:02:2016)

• ForewordChapter One – The First Words of French: Nithard’s Historiae de dissensionibus filiorum        Ludovici PiiChapter Two – Whose Words are They? Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum Chapter Three – Villehardouin ‘Who Never to the Best of his Knowledge Spoke anUntrue Word’ La ConquÊte de Constantinople Chapter Four – Robert de Clari, Povre  Chevalier Who ‘Wrote the Straight Truth’: La ConquÊte de ConstantinopleChapter Five – In the Words of the Author: Li Fet des Romains: The Gallic WarChapter Six – In the Words of the Author: Li Fet des Romains: The Civil WarConclusionAfterwordBibliography of Works Cited